_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

LeBrainBoy, ladies and gentlemen.

But what if the Predators had time travel abilities? Ever think about that!?

every single day of my life

I would call the sequel "Time Predators."

"This time ... they're hunting through time!"

tbh predators taking on t-rexes would be pretty fun

charlamagne vs predator

ghenghis khan vs predator vs beethoven vs freud vs joan of arc vs napolean vs socrates

san dimas high school football rules

no bill and ted = no credibility

i don't want them to get hurt

WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT

ghenghis khan vs predator vs beethoven vs freud vs joan of arc vs napolean vs socrates

My first thought was Beethoven the movie dog.

haha well certainly he's invited if he wants to join the carnage

My friend (a chef who works nights and has days off) posted on FB that all daytime showings of Avatar 3D IMAX in his area are sold out until next Tuesday... yes 5 days sold out in advance.

ya but even u admit he's a chef

his post was illustrating his frustration about going to the theater today and not being able to get tix to the film even outside of peak hours on not just on a random weekday (which is usually not a problem for people who work nights)... but at a 5 day leadtime! my point in posting that is to suggest that the film may be gaining box office momentum which is pretty frightening.

Yeah I want to see it at Imax but I'm waiting until there's actually empty seats in the theater. Sheesh.

Too good to sit in a stranger's lap, are you?

BTW it's now the 2nd highest grossing film of all time. And it's only been out for 20 days. Jesus.

xpost - I prefer to provide the lap, thank you very much.

best get there early then

I am not going to see this film.

The only Sam Worthington you ever need to see in your life btw was his performance in a rubbish Australian reimagating of Macbeth. Specifically his whispery delivery of "is that a dagger I see before me...(lengthy pause)...or a dagger of the mind?"

IMAX show I went to was hell of sold out, on the way out i saw them turning away actual dozens of ppl

I had to sit on the far left/up front for my IMAX viewing :|

I like that my local imax theater has assigned seating, I was able to actually pick my seats when buying tickets

still feel no desire to see this, but the figures are beginning to wear me down tbh

I've been worn down, finally going to see this next weekend. We had to buy our tickets for the IMAX a week in advance.

the sweet spot in my local IMAX (ie centre area of the back three rows) is the only assigned seating bit, and has been sold out for every showing since this opened. I've finally got tickets for next Wednesday. When we were in the same cinema to see another film last Saturday at 2.00pm all Avatar showings in IMAX and other screens were already sold out - I know there's some discussion upthread about how this "couldn't fail" with the marketing $$$ behind it, but it does seem like word of mouth after the opening week has given this huge momentum as well.

I figure this is still gonna play to packed IMAX theatres for probably a couple more months, long after it's stopped playing at regular theatres

To quote Crow T. Robot from a while back: "It's even better with the 3-D glasses on -- I feel like I'm really here!"

sign of the apocalypse?

Kenneth Turan, thefairly negative film crit for the LA Times who infamously panned Titanic not just once but several tims and repeatedly drew the ire of Cameron, actually LIKED this!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/12/avatar-restores-a-sense-of-wonder-to-the-moviegoing-experience.html

david brooks did not like the jar jar binksness
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/opinion/08brooks.html?th&emc=th
he forgets to point out how cameron colonializes yes album covers too

rollin' my eyes at that URL xp

+my god, mark - your username... ARG - MY BRANE!

rollin' my eyes at that URL xp

otfm

still waiting till this plays on a rollercoaster at six flags

you guys are just too jaded to enjoy true wonder!

This was horrible and half-baked on so many levels, all of which I'm sure have been pointed out somewhere on this thread, but it is far too long to read all the way through and I want to vent.

I could not understand why, if they wanted the stupid resource so bad, they didn't just nuke the fucking tree in the first couple of minutes rather than bothering with the whole rigmarole of growing a massively expensive pseudo-Navii to infiltrate the tribe (that incidentally was demonstrated to be a completely pointless exercise as the Navii could tell straightaway that the avatar wasn't really one of them). I mean if it takes 6 years to travel there then it presumably takes at least that long to send a message so who cares about the media - by the time you've wiped out the indigineous population no one back on Earth is going to give a fuck.

Why did the scientists go along with it at all when it was clearly obvious from the first scene with Giovani Ribisi that the organisation they were working for could care less what happened to the natives? It would have been nice to have any external context to what was going on, motivations etc, instead of endless cgi "training" scenes.

Also why the obsession with stupid "mecha" robots? I guarantee these things would never be developed by any future military - they are completely stupid; unwieldy, inefficient and they present an obvious target - the trend is surely towards lighter, streamlined fighting vehicles with a minimal silhouette not greating hulking things that are slow and expose their operators to more danger.

The "War on Terror" theme was hamfisted and obvious - "we need to use terror against terror" "time to deploy shock and awe" etc etc *yawn*. And then some nonsense trying to justify suicide bombing or something. Pathetic.

And to cap it all there was the atrocious hippy dippy gaia ecology bullshit that underpinned the movie. Horrible wishful thinking - "if only we were nice to nature we could live in trippy neon harmony with it and one day evolve symbiotic genitalia and love each other etc". I'm in the Lovecraft/Herzog/Alien (oh the fuckiing irony - and I realise this film was a particularly heavy-handed inversion of Aliens) camp - the universe gives not one jot whether we live or die; a planet-flattening asteroid could be punching its way through the atmosphere as I type this.

The real shame is that they fucked up a classic story-telling trope. It would have been better and more effective as a satire if Earth had simply been straightforwardly at war with these furry motherfuckers a la Forever War and the central character had gradually changed allegiance over the course of the film from being the typical gung-ho marine. Cut out all the science garbage. Opportunity lost.

"we need to use terror against terror"

this was quite awesome in its bluntness but your points are generally sound i'd say

xpost: why the obsession with 'mecha robots'? because they're next-level ALIENS power loaders, and I want one.

only downside is not seeing Sigourney strap one of those badboys on.

only read your last post and had a moment

lol

i loved the fact that the mecha robots had the "not a step" sticker that the aliens loader queen-beater-upper thing had. great attention to detail in this movie visually, whatever else you think about it.

whatevers else u think abt it is prob stupid unless it includes "avatar is super rad"

I just loved how it was The Abyss, Aliens, Terminator Titanic and Ferngully all shoved in a blender. I went in totally suspicious and ready to be bored and jaded...and I was totally sucked in. The thing that had me completely transfixed was the Pandorum scenery, the real-life looking parts. I want to know how they did that. Did they just get cameras and go zooming through every kickass rainforest they could find?

ears are wounds is o t fucking m.

so tired of yr guys textbook views on what every movie needs to be compelling and hatred for mall hippie black light posters - im totally hanging out in the house w/the black light posters over the one w/the screenwriting textbooks